SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Alexis Peterson scored a season-high 29 points, Brianna Butler hit three straight 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter to break open the game, and Syracuse advanced to its first women's Final Four with an 89-67 victory over Tennessee in the Sioux Falls Regional final Sunday.

Archbishop Spalding graduate Maggie Morrison played a key reole in the victory, making 3 of 5 from 3-point range to score nine points and help Syracuse. Morrison was the Capital Gazette Communications Female Athlete of the Year in 2011.

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The fourth-seeded Orange (29-7) will play No. 7 seed Washington in a national semifinal next Sunday in Indianapolis.

Reserve Cornelia Fondren made all six of her shots and finished with 13 points to help Syracuse follow its Friday upset of top-seeded South Carolina with its 15th victory in 16 games.

Diamond DeShields scored 20 points and had 10 rebounds to lead the Lady Vols (22-14) in the loss that finished their surprise NCAA run after a 13-loss regular season that was the worst in program history.

Peterson, who had a season-high 26 points against the Gamecocks, has scored 20 or more in each of the Orange's four tournament games. She collapsed at midcourt in tears of joy after the final buzzer as teammates swarmed her, and she flashed a No. 1 with her right finger as she embraced Brittney Sykes.

Butler, the NCAA active leader in career field goals, made six 3-pointers for the third time this season and scored 18 points.

Butler's back-to-back 3-pointers gave the Orange a double-digit lead after the Lady Vols pulled to 63-59 early in the fourth quarter. Syracuse was up 12 after Peterson's jumper that followed DeShields' offensive foul, and the bulge eventually grew to 23.

Syracuse was able to attack Tennessee's 2-3 zone however it pleased. With Butler's 3-point touch always a threat, Peterson once and Fondren twice sliced through for layups on three straight possessions in the third quarter, and Peterson hit a jumper from the corner on the next for a 51-41 lead.

DeShields kept the Lady Vols in range, at least temporarily, scoring 11 points the first 6:42 of the third quarter and forcing Syracuse to call a timeout after hitting two straight 3s to pull her team to 54-51. Morrison's 3-pointer and another snaking layup by Fondren pushed Syracuse's lead back to 63-53.

Mercedes Russell, who had a career-high 25 points against Ohio State on Friday and came into the game shooting 70 percent in her first three tournament games, was limited to just five shots and finished with seven points. The Lady Vols' other post, Bashaara Graves, was 3 for 8 for 11 points.

WASHINGTON 85, STANFORD 76: Chantel Osahor and Kelsey Plum always believed they could help make Washington a championship-caliber program.

They signed with the Huskies as out-of-state recruits even though Washington had never reached the Final Four and hadn't won an NCAA Tournament game since 2006. Their faith was rewarded Sunday when the junior tandem led the seventh-seeded Huskies to an 85-76 victory over No. 4 seed Stanford in the NCAA Lexington Regional women's basketball final.

"I don't think it's really hit us," said Osahor, wearing a piece of the Rupp Arena net tied to her Final Four hat. "I mean, we're in the Final Four. That's a huge accomplishment. I think we've got to look back and appreciate it and soak it in because it's an opportunity a lot of people don't get."

Osahor, selected the regional's most valuable player, matched a career high with 24 points and had 18 rebounds. Plum, who began the day as the third-leading scorer in Division I, had 26 points and eight assists.

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"We're not done yet," Washington coach Mike Neighbors said. "'What's Next?' has been our motto. It's going to continue to be all the way through Indy."

This marked the first regional final between two Pac-12 schools since Stanford beat Southern California 82-62 on its way to winning the national championship in 1992, when the conference was still known as the Pac-10.

Washington scored the game's first 12 points, had a 22-7 lead at the end of the first quarter and stayed ahead the rest of the way.

Stanford (27-8) pulled to 78-73 on Lili Thompson's 3-pointer with 1:07 left. An offensive foul on Plum allowed Stanford to get the ball back, but Thompson missed a 3-pointer with a minute remaining.